Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan

Author:John Buchan
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Adventure fiction
Publisher: epubBooks Classics
Published: 2015-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

He came at me with his sword in a great heat.

In an instant we crossed swords and fell to; I with the sun in my eyes and on the lower ground. The combat was not of long duration. In a trice I found that he was a mere child in my hands, a barbarian who used his sword like a quarter–staff, not even putting strength into his thrusts.

“Enough!” I cried; “this is mere fooling;” and with a movement which any babe in arms might have checked, twirled his blade from his hands and sent it spinning over the grass. “Follow your sword, and learn two things before you come back—civility to maids and the rudiments of sword–play. Bah! Begone with you!”

Some one of his men laughed, and I think they were secretly glad at their tyrant’s discomfiture. No more need be said. He picked up his weapon and rode away, vowing vengeance upon me and swearing at every trooper behind him. I cared not a straw for him, for despite his bravado I knew that the fear of death was in his cowardly heart, and that we should be troubled no more by his visitations.

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